#tract

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#elements #fact #form #needed #truth

Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy. ↗

— Jake Gyllenhaal

#attracted #every #every man #goes #guy

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Moses Hadas

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

#extract #good #human #human nature #inherent

That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery. ↗

— Barbara Hershey

#attracted #because #call #everyone #i

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction. ↗

— Max Bill

#art #basis #being #borrowing #call

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#boils #brought #careers #demands #edge

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment. ↗

— Bono

#brought #coal #cost #environment #extraction

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#attract #feels #man #strong #strong woman

Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused. ↗

— Claudia Cardinale

#exclusivity #i #me #refused #sign